startup_32 already clears these flags on entry, do it in startup_64 as
well for consistency.
The direction flag in particular is not specified to be cleared in the
boot protocol documentation, and we currently call into C code
(paging_prepare) without explicitly clearing it.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
index 27eb2a6786db..69cc6c68741e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
@@ -264,6 +264,9 @@ SYM_CODE_START(startup_64)
* and command line.
*/
+ cld
+ cli
+
/* Setup data segments. */
xorl %eax, %eax
movl %eax, %ds
--
2.24.1